Return from dead to punish theft of teeth

Motif

Return from dead to punish theft of teeth.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E235.4.6

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general U.S. (S. Carolina): Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to punish theft of part of corpse. (Cf. E419.7.)

Filed beside it

Return from dead to punish theft of golden arm from grave Return from dead to punish theft of leg from grave Return from dead to punish theft of bone from grave Return from dead to punish theft of liver from man on gallows Return from dead to punish theft of skull

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